I Hate the Scandinavian. How to crush?

You'd be surprised that it isn't that impressive. Nothing like the skill it would take to get the same rating in other time controls. Here I play a known bad line against a 2300 which gives black a simple route to at least a dead equal position and maybe more. They didn't take it. https://www.chess.com/game/daily/350754267

Daily has ratings all over the place. Some 2 000 rated players in blitz are around 1 500 or 1 600 in daily after hundreds of games. Then there are some people rated 1 200 in rapid that are 1 800 in daily.

I feel it mostly depends on how serious people take those games. Some play 50 at the same time and it probably shows in their rating. All that being said, getting daily rating to 2 400 is really impressive nonetheless.

I totally disagree. The Tal variation of the CK starts with the advance. It's rock solid, and best of all it's lots of fun because there's a lot of branching and tons of fun tactical possibilities.

@fissionfowl - I actually know a ton of theory (more than is healthy, really) and am reasonably good at very slow OTB chess. I'm just painfully bad at maneuvering games in faster formats and tend to lose most of those. Oh look! I lost my queen again!

Speaking of daily ratings being vastly different from a players other ratings heres a wild example:

John Burke is in a daily tournament that I'm in. Yes, ur thinking of the SAME John Burke I'm talking about. His daily rating is currently 2088 (peaked at 2296). He's played around 2500 daily games. A lot. He's a legit GM and just played in the most recent US championship.  He won 2020's US junior championship over Jeffrey Xiong. He's got a uscf rating of 2676 and a fide of 2542 (peaked at 2603). I don't know what happened, maybe he played a lot of those games when he was real young. I'm tempted to ask him but I'm not gonna bother him over it, it's a pretty minor question. 

My point being, that dang daily rating can be all over the place.

h6 is an inaccuracy in the Tal. White can play e6, ruin black's pawn structure, and the king is no longer safe. I jump for joy when black plays h6. It's going to be a fun game.

I'm trying to think if I've ever lost to an h6 in the Tal. I don't think so. I've lost plenty of h5 games though. Again, it becomes more positional and I fall asleep.